The Right
To Unionise
By Ed McDonnell
(see bottom of page)
- as far from an academic handbook
on your rights at work as it's possible
to imagine, The Right To Unionise has
the feel of the shop floor -
North West Labour History
This plain website is just a platform for free
downloads and links. The over-large text on
tablets and desktops is explained at the bottom.
After the text below, then The Essential RTU
download, is the full work, also a free download.
The job deal is very unequal, we all
know that. It gives employers unfair
power over we workers, the great
majority of the population. But it is
accepted as if just how the world is.
It means employers can treat their
many supposedly-valued fellow-
country(w)men as second-class
citizens.
It should not be like this.
The reasons why it is are
ignored. They should be
common knowledge.
The lack of widespread unionisation
to respond to this power employers
have over fellow-citizens, the great
majority, is the biggest wrong in
economics and politics. It enables
the business class to treat people
badly as workers, corner gross
wealth, and get political power.
The Right To Unionise shows how it
is unfair and why unionising and union
conditions should be universal rights
and expected for everyone, globally.
Continued in the free download
The Essential RTU.pdf Four pages.
In large text for smartphones.
Click on the .pdf links for more
free downloads
Work & Politics As Football.pdf
They are organised. We Are Not.
Two pages
THE BOOK
v.2025.2, 232 pages .
Best read on larger devices and PCs,
because text is small on smartphones.
A page of summary diagrams
The Right To Unionise Chart.pdf
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For the message in song -
Part Of The Union
by The Strawbs
on YouTube -
https://youtu.be/qJYbFFFZwdE?si=ThsKmncNOFHHSrnX
The Right To Unionise is taken
from Us, Politics And The System
that is at
Us, Politics And The System.org
The Right To Unionise includes
summaries of Us, Politics And
The System, here separately
in large text for reading on
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of Us Politics And The System -
North West Labour History -
far from an academic handbook on
your rights at work; has the feel of
the shop floor.
The late Tony Benn, socialist activist
and politician -
a great book to explain the essentials.
Ed McDonnell is a retired lecturer who
taught courses for union workplace
reps/shop stewards and has been
active in the labour movement and
class politics for fifty years. In the UK.
Explanation of the website design
A simple .html file made in MS Word, the text
is done in a size readable on smartphones that
displays over-large on desktop computers and
tablets. To fix this, a proper webpage is needed
and will be constructed shortly. But it is the
content that matters, of the downloads and
the printed copies on Lulu, and they are
continually improved and display and print OK.
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